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1 Lap of the Internet: French vehicle weirdness and Sebring domination: Automotive news and video clips from all corners of the Web

Automotive news and video clips from all corners of the Web

— In this episode of “How to Perform Simple Duties to and Close to Your French City Vehicle,” we find out to refill the windshield washer fluid in the Renault Twingo. Very first, you pull a cover hidden in the thin front grille against a single of the headlights. It dangles downward like a weak loogie. Then, you do the identical on the other side. Pull 2 hefty plastic tabs in the apertures you have just unveiled, which push the hood down. The washer fluid tank is at the bottom of a deep and dark recess at the really left corner, The announcer jabs excitedly with his finger. Some Woody Allen lookalikes swoop down to gawk inquisitively. The most maddening part of this whole operation is that the front hood is completely connected to the rest of the automobile — it cannot be removed, only turned to the left or right. This is precisely the kind of impractical, convoluted considering that caused Renault (and Peugeot, and Citroën) to fail in America in the first area.

— Owing to a “small technical infringement in the course of qualifying,” Stevan McAleer of C.J. Wilson Racing started out in the back of the grid at the Continental Tire Series race at Sebring. By the end of the very first lap, he had passed 15 automobiles in one lap. And by the finish of the race, McAleer and co-driver Chad McCumbee would finish in second location. McAleer explains how via valuable race notes, in situation you are organizing on undertaking the identical with out the benefit of cheat codes.

— Originally, there was no town known as Agloe, in upstate New York. Mapmakers conjured it up. Then, all of a sudden, there was. Then, there wasn’;t. Decades later on, it showed up again. Now? Robert Krulwich explains the story of a small town that did not disappear in and out of space-time, like a Stephen King brief story, but came about by way of clever manipulation and copyright infringement.

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